Please go back and reread the last chapter, I accidentally uploaded the wrong copy of it. More has been added to it and a few things were changed. Sorry about the confusion on my part. I'd also like to thank everybody for the great reviews:) I'll try to keep the chapters coming in steady!

Hinata fidgeted in her seat, something she rarely did. She sat between Shino and Kiba, she showed up later than her normal time. Which had cost Hinata her usual seat between Shikamaru and Choji, Yakamaru had filled her place, a scow marring her pretty face. Yakamaru glared at the row of seats in front of them, where Haruno had somehow managed the seat by Sasuke. Next to Haruno was Naruto, trying to have a conversation with Haruno. Naruto, Hinata knew that she had a crush on him, it had started when she was younger; she had admired his courage to be bold and outspoken. Now her crush on him was faded, more couriers of how he kept going with all the people in the village who hated him.

Her feelings for him had started to fade with her time with Sasuke. She found that her crush had begun to fade into a mere fondness of Naruto. He was a brightly lit beam of hope for all who had lost their ways, in her mind. Hinata would have liked to be able to get to know him more. She had only talked to him once, last year at the ramen stand. Their conversation was mostly him ranting, but she had understood some of his hidden messages in his rant. He didn't understand why the villagers hated him. He was upset. He just wanted to have somebody to be friends with. He wanted to know what made people hate him so much.

It was easy for Hinata to empathize with him. She had remembered how her father had despised her for being weak, and shy. Useless in her father's eyes, an unfit leader, Hinata had just wanted him to understand that it wasn't easy for her to be brute and mean. It never was her nature, like it never was her mother's.

Hinata flinched at Kiba's rather loud conversation with his friends, who all somehow found seat near him. It amused her to see that Shino's eyebrow twitched, and he seemed to be trying to mediate to mask his annoyance. Over the noise Hinata heard Yakamaru say how she would hate being on a team with Shikamaru, and saw Shikamaru raise an eyebrow as if to say "Yeah, I'd hate to be on a team with you too."

Finally Iruka-Sensei cleared his throat and everybody shut up. He stood, his eyes sweeping over the room, as if he was trying to picture the room without all of us. He picked up his list and sighed.

"Okay it has been…" Hinata drowned him out thinking back to why she was even running late in the first place.

Her father was always up early, she knew that. But it had shocked her to find him in the kitchen making his own tea. Something she'd always known him to have a branch member do. He was looking out the small window above the sink. Hinata didn't expect him to speak to her as she was making four bento boxes. He didn't even address her directly.

"I thought you were crazy the day you brought the young Uchiha here. It was the middle of the night; I didn't even know that you weren't home. I was so mad at Neji for not making sure you were in your room after dinner." He paused to sip his tea, "But you grew so much after that night. The younger Uchiha must have helped you find yourself in a way that I'm not sure even you understand.

Before you were born your mother and I were going to have an arranged marriage planed for you with the Uchiha's. But Fugaku only spoke of his eldest boy, Itachi, he was six years older than you. Your mother wanted you to marry someone close in age. Fugaku had argued that Itachi had yet to find a suitable wife, and he was the first born and you were the first to be born. Your mother refused him and told him that if he came to his senses to seek us in ten years."

He closed his eyes as he sipped more tea, "The Uchiha Clan was massacred, your mother died and Uchiha Itachi is now an S-ranked criminal in the bingo book."

Hinata had finished making her bento boxes and stood wondering why her father was telling her all this, her mind reeling. He never spoke of her mother, not to anyone; everyone thought it pained him too much. Hinata wondered if he just needed to get it out and she happened to come in this morning aupon him at the wrong time.

"Your mother never let the branch members make her tea. She always did it here in the kitchen every morning. Claimed it taste better when she did it herself. I never let anyone else made jasmine tea, but when you were six, not long after you brought the young Uchiha here, you made her jasmine tea just like she used to." He glanced at the clock, "I've been very proud of how strong you've become Hinata, so very proud. But never forget that you have your mother's heart, and take time to make sure that you harden the walls around it. Be strong, protect yourself. I'm sure you will be on a team with people who will help you continue to grow. No go, before you are late. Hyuuga's are never late." And he left her standing there, more confused by her father than ever.

"Team 10 – Akimichi Choji, Yamanaka Ino and Nara Shikamaru." Iruka-Sensei called out bring Hinata back from her memory of this morning. She could see Yamanaka sigh and Shikamaru grin at her.

"Team 8 – Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino and Haruno Sakura." Hinata sighed with relief; she wasn't with wither Haruno or Yamanaka.

"Team 7 – Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuuga Hinata and Uchiha Sasuke." Iruka-Sensei grinned at everybody, " Class dismissed, go have lunch with your teammates!"

Everybody jumped up and raced out, glad to be out of class and on lunch break. Shikamaru and Choji both came over and smiled at her.

"Congrates on making a team with Sasuke." Shikamaru grinned at her, like he knew that's what she wanted. With his IQ, Hinata wouldn't doubt it either.

"I'm sorry that you guys are stuck on a team with Yamanaka." Hinata said as she handed them the bento boxes she made them, "I bet she doesn't know how to make Choji's special BBQ sauce."

Hinata joked with them for a while before Yamanaka came and dragged them off to go have lunch with her, before they had to meet their Jounin. Hinata chuckled as she left to go find Sasuke, surely he was eating tons of tomatoes and onigiri again.